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Download for Windows Check out the IndieDB project page Like on Facebook Follow on Twitter  After seven months of hard work, Alpha 3  is ready to play!Some interesting statistics:28,000+  lines of code29 MB  of compressed voxel data63 MB  of sounds and music38  animations60+  textures and normal maps220+  revisio...

As I suspected, I have an almost insurmountable case of coder's block after a full day at work. Nevertheless, things are getting done. In fact, this might be the best thing that's happened for Lemma because it's forced me to cut a lot out of the design and focus on core things. It's the only way I'll ever finish.Screenshot below gives an idea of the new d...

A smorgasbord of anecdotes carefully compiled just for you, dear reader. This is #2 in a series of three posts which were originally one, before I decided I just had too dang much to say.   OpenStack    I spent a few weeks at work building a fully operational [s]death star  OpenStack cluster. What does that mean? Basically, we have our own little private...

I recently had to install and configure an 18-node OpenStack  cluster, a process which involved a lot of SSHing and text-editing in terminals. I thought about learning Vim, but I was afraid of the incredibly steep learning curve, so I made do with GNU nano. It's not at all powerful, but it's easy.Eventually I realized, "This is my job. This is what I do e...

I just got internet back after being without it since before Christmas. It was a tearful reunion, to be sure. Turns out, I was actually more productive than usual without internet. There's a one-word explanation for that, and it rhymes with "edit".ANYway, here's what got done:Analytics  When you finish a play session, you'll see something like this:http:/...

Lemma has been radio silent recently, but that does NOT mean things aren't happening! I've been able to do a ton of work almost every day these past few weeks. Here's what's going on:

Did some massive surgery on the very first tutorial section after getting some feedback from a limited alpha release. It introduces, jumping,...

How's everyone doing? I'm doing okay. It's a Monday. Hope you're doing okay too. Surviving Sandy aftermath, school, work, and whatever other forms of oppression you may be under.

I don't have anything pretty to show for the past... wow, it's been three weeks. I've been...

I present to you, "Voxel Levitation: a Step-by-Step Guide".

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I experienced a strange memory issue with Lemma this week. Memory usage skyrocketed each time I loaded a level; it never dropped back down.

Now granted, I am definitely the garbage collector's worst nightmare. (I'll just say this: closures. Closures everywhere.) But at this point I am setting fields to null all over the place and manually...

Stamina and Sprint

I finally realized that speed is perhaps the most important resource in a Parkour game. Up until now, Lemma hasn't really understood the concept of "faster" and "slower"; you were always going the same speed. Acceleration from a dead...